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Pharmaceutical Codes

Pharmaceutical codes are used in medical classification to uniquely identify medication.

Examples of coding systems include:

• Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System (AT, or ATC/DDD) --

administered by World Health Organization

• National Drug Codes (NDC) -- administered by Food and Drug Administration

• SNOMED -- C axis

Topographical Codes

In medicine, "Topographical Codes" (or "topography code") are codes that indicate a specific location in the body.

Examples:

Only the first of these is a system dedicated only to topography. The others are more generalized systems that contain topographic axes.

• Nomina Anatomica (updated to Terminologia Anatomica)

• ICD-O

• SNOMED

• MeSH (the 'A' axis)

List Of Medical Classification Systems

This is an incomplete list, which may never be complete.

Specialized For Medicine

Part of WHO Family of International Classifications (WHO-FIC)

Types of classification

1. Diagnosis codes

In medicine, Diagnostic codes are used to group and identify diseases, disorders, symptoms, and medical signs, and are used to measure morbidity and mortality.

Commonly used diagnosis coding systems

• ICD-9-CM (volumes 1 and 2 only. Volume 3 contains Procedure codes)

• ICD-10

• ICPC-2 (Also includes reasons for encounter (RFE), Procedure codes and process of

care)

• NANDA

• Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (psychiatric disorders only)

• Mendelian Inheritance in Man (genetic diseases only)

• SNOMED (D axis)

2. Procedural codes

Procedure codes are numbers or alphanumeric codes used to identify specific health interventions taken by medical professionals.

Examples of procedure codes

International

• International Classification of Procedures in Medicine (ICPM) and International

Classification of Health Interventions (ICHI)

North American

• Health Care Procedure Coding System (including Current Procedural Terminology)

(used in United States)

• ICD-10 Procedure Coding System (ICD-10-PCS) (used in United States)

• ICD-9-CM Volume 3 (subset of ICD-9-CM) (used in United States)

• Canadian Classification of Health Interventions (CCI) (used in Canada. Replaced

CCP.)

Related Other

• International Classification of Diseases for Oncology, Third Edition (ICD-O-3)

• ICD-10 for Mental and Behavioural Disorders

• Application of the International Classification of Diseases to Dentistry and Stomatology, 3rd Edition (ICD-DA)

• Application of the International Classification of Diseases to Neurology (ICD-10-NA)

• Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC)

3. Pharmaceutical codes

Pharmaceutical codes are used in medical classification to uniquely identify medication. Examples of coding systems include:

• Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System (AT, or ATC/DDD) --

administered by World Health Organization

• National Drug Codes (NDC) -- administered by Food and Drug Administration

• SNOMED -- C axis

4. Topographical codes

In medicine, "Topographical codes" (or "topography code") are codes that indicate a specific location in the body.

Examples

Only the first of these is a system dedicated only to topography. The others are more generalized systems that contain topographic axes.

• Nomina Anatomica (updated to Terminologia Anatomica)

• ICD-O

• SNOMED

• MeSH (the 'A' axis)

Reference Classifications

• International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD)

• International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF)

• International Classification of Health Interventions (ICHI) -- under development

Related Classifications

• International Classification of Primary Care (ICPC-2)

• International Classification of External Causes of Injury (ICECI)

• Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System (ATC/DDD)

• Technical aids for persons with disabilities: Classification and terminology (ISO9999)

Derived Classifications

• International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health for Children and Youth (ICF-CY)

Other

• Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)

• Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine (SNOMED)

• TNM Classification of Malignant Tumours

• Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

• Unified Medical Language System (UMLS)

• Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM)

• Health Care Procedure Coding System (HCPCS)

• North American Nursing Diagnosis Association (NANDA)

• Read Codes

• Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC)

Library classification that have medical components

• Dewey Decimal System and Universal Decimal Classification (section 610-620)

• Library of Congress Classification:Class R--Medicine

• National Library of Medicine classification